This kicked me in the butt over and over again. On my cluster I accepted
some default time such as 8pm. I installed a few nodes. Then I thought
I should install ntpdate to get the right time. It reset my time to 5pm.
Then I tried adding more nodes but got this error. I never actually made
the connection to the time problem until I read the mkinitrd script and
looked in initrd to see /etc/boottab was not updated which seemed to be
a problem of mkinitrd (run by ssi-ksync) script not overwriting
/tftpboot/initrd and /tftpboot/combined because they thought they were
more up to date since they were created at 8pm as opposed to the current
time 5pm.
Solution:
# rm -rf /tftpboot/initrd /tftpboot/combined
# ssi-ksync
On the other hand... maybe I shouldn't have to do this and these files
should always be overwritten. I am sure I am not the only one who
has/will run into this.
Cheers.
Jon.